Interesting ...

[Dave W]

I'm fine with whatever gets you the tone you want. I know a few guys who love their multi-scales. But it's not anything that's necessary.

[ilan]

But it's not anything that's necessary.

If we went by necessary this forum would never have existed.

[4stringer77]

Cousin It can get a fat tone from his Dingwall. Apparently he recommends resisting something. I guess a haircut and a shave?

[ajkula66]

I've only played one Dingwall - and old Super J - and liked it but not enough to spend the funds I actually had in my pocket.

It would take *me* a lot of time to get used to playing it higher up the neck, so back to the rack it went.

Nevertheless, it was a well-built instrument in my book.

[morrow]

I played a fretless Super P and was surprised that my intonation was effortless. At the time my main bass was an old fretless P.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

I've always wanted to try a multi-scale bass, specifically a Dingwall, just to see if I could get a good fat tone out of it and make it work for me. Modern "metal" is boring computer generated video game music to me, and.most active preamps usually leave me cold, but I'd give it a shot. If the basic tone is there, I'm sure I could find some surplus 70's or 80's Ibanez pickup (who, not coincidentally, have one of the VERY few active sounds that is fat the way I like outside of MM/G&L) to put in it. I beat the shit out of my basses and having more consistent tension across the neck would be a really nice thing for feel. On EVERY bass I have that's 34" scale, the jump to the G string always buries everything else, because technically, every other string IS a short scale and the harmonics really come alive without becoming too bright or brittle. Sheldon has clearly found his market and successfully hitched his wagon to it.